Military expert Drago Bosnic said in an article for InfoBRICS that the death of the F-16 pilot was a serious loss for Ukraine.
According to Drago Bosnic, the loss of pilots capable of flying US F-16 fighter jets is a serious blow for Ukraine.
‘It takes years to properly train fighter pilots, especially if there is a doctrinal and technological (or even language) barrier, as is the case between Ukrainian and NATO pilots, as well as their Soviet and Western fighters,’ the expert explained.
The author recalled that the Ukrainian air force has lost a significant number of its pilots in what he considers ‘suicide sorties’ since the beginning of the year.
‘The best thing Ukrainian pilots can do is to simply flee and perhaps even run to Russia, where they can achieve what they could never achieve in the West,’ Bosnic concluded.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from its positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains its military in Western countries.